First Celestial Range

The First Celestial Range, also known as the Juldice Empire or Atharki Federation, and commonly known to more modern historians as the First Celestial Expansion and Biochemical Deposition was a galactic government that existed over 5 billion years before the Galactic Republic. It was believed to be the first interstellar government in the Universe. The citizens of the Range were exclusively Celestials from the planet Juldice, since no other sentient species (and indeed very little life of any sort) existed in the Galaxy.

The First Celestial Range was thought to be responsible for the Biochemical Anomaly, having seeded many planets throughout the Galaxy with their own biochemicals and microbes.

History
The First Celestial Range formed in approximately 5,000,000,000 BBY, when the Celestials developed superluminal technology and were able to leave the Aspan System. Over 900 years after leaving the Aspan System, the Celestials were able to leave the Rishi Maze itself and travel to the Skyriver Galaxy.

The Celestials declared the Atharki Federation at around about this time, which would eventually morph into the Celestial Range. The Range was a loose association of numerous smaller Celestials governments, large businesses and organizations that spread throughout the Rishi Maze and the Skyriver Galaxy.

During this time, the Celestials (mainly inadvertently) deposited their planet's own microbes and biochemicals on planets all over the Galaxy. This led to the Biochemical Anomaly, the fact that many ecologies on planets great distances from one another shared the same biochemistry.

The First Celestial Range lasted for 1.2 million years, but dissipated after numerous smaller Celestial societies left the Galaxy. The Galaxy would be left without an interstellar government for almost 5 billion years.

The Celestials also built numerous structures on and around the planets they visited, but because of the antiquity of the First Range, no trace of any structures existed by the time of the Galactic Republic, since they had all been destroyed by geological or cosmological activity.